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Comment Anti Cheat Maybe (Score 2) 125

It would probably cause more problems than it's worth, but it might be able to render some form of cheating worthless. If each program had a different layout then knowing what address you needed to hook into to cheat could be a problem. I don't see how it could cause more problems than anti-cheat software already does.

Comment The More They Spend The Less I Want (Score 1) 111

This is just stupid. The entire Triple A over spending is about putting in intrusive DRM that makes me not want to touch their games. I'm find with traditional DRM since the old school NES Cartridge is DRM, but not this Project 5 Dollar theft, and not this Always Online nonsense. The only reason the Indie's are getting any success is because these big companies are trying to eat themselves out of house and home. Just give me my periodic RPG's and I'll be happy. As it stands I'm starving for content that just isn't coming.

Comment Re:Retrieving memories causes decay? (Score 1) 426

We're talking about the compatibility by a Turning Machine. Which puts Pi into the realm of Non-Computable. It is really a choose your own adventure of definitions, but any number that cannot be represented to an infinite precision is not actually computable. A Turning Machine will always run into a rounding error when it try's to output the value. You can use the other lax definitions that say you can reduce it down to a function that can output the value to the "desired" precision, but that's hardly infinite precision when you look at the output.

Comment Or a lot more preprocessing (Score 1) 105

It easily could be that your mind is simulating everything a few moments into the future. Trying to anticipate the actions of others, your own actions, and the possible events that could occur. Occasionally it could find something's going to fall, but can't insert an action far enough ahead to prevent it from starting like tipping a cup. The result is you responding to a falling cup prior to you knowing it was going to fall.

Comment Re:I wonder (Score 3, Insightful) 119

You say that it's "optional", but it's not. If you view it as a scam investment like Tulip Bulbs that can bankrupt people you warn people away from it in some vain attempt to save them before they are ruined by it. It's not optional because when friends and family are dupt into it, and loose their shirt it's going to hurt you even if you didn't personally invest one penny in it.

Comment Re:this is reassuring (Score 1) 481

No, it's not security though obscurity, it's security though not being on the internet, not needing the internet, and not wanting the internet. The older tech prevents someone from even being able to hook it up to the internet even if they wanted to. The internet is one big security hole, and if you don't need it then anything that prevents you from having it is a plus for security.

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